Vallabaraj, Jerome, S.D.B., S.T.D.

• Youth Ministry
• Catechetics
• Team Ministry

• 1975     Bachelor of Arts (Economics) at Sacred Heart College Tiruppatur, Tamil Nadu.
• 1984    Licentiate with specialization in Youth Ministry and Catechetics from the Faculty of Theology, Universita Pontificia Salesiana, Rome, Italy
• 1997    Doctorate in Theology with specialization in Youth Ministry and Catechetics from the Faculty of Theology, Universita Pontificia Salesiana, Rome, Italy

• Catholic Schools And Faith-Education: A Pastoral–Empirical Exploratory Research on the Effectiveness of Faith-Education in the Catholic Higher Secondary Schools in Tamil Nadu, Bangalore (India), Kristu Jyoti Publications, 2000, pp. xxxii + 363.
• Empowering the Young Towards Fullness of Life. Seminal Thoughts on Some Pedagogico-Pastoral Requisites in Youth Ministry, Bangalore (India), Kristu Jyoti Publications, 2003, pp. ix + 267.
• Animating the Young – An Introduction to a Holistic Paradigm of Youth Ministry, Kristu Jyoti Publications, Bangalore, 2005, pp. xv + 201.
• Transaltion in Italian: Animazione e Pastorale Giovanile – Un’introduzione al paradigma olistico, Leumann (TO), Elledici, 2008, pp.165.
• Delving into the World of the Catechetical Education of Adults. A Multi-perspective Elaboration, Bangalore (India), Kristu Jyoti Publications, 2008, pp. xiii + 357.
• Translation in Italian: Educazione catechetica degli adulti – Un approccio multidimensionale, Roma, LAS, 2009, pp. 365.
• Translation in Spanish: Profundizar la catequesis de adultos. Elaboración en multi-perspectiva, Santiago (Chile), Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, 2011, pp. 502.
• Faith-Focused Mentoring as a Paradigm for Youth Catechesis – Towards the Articulation of a Frame of Reference, Bangalore (India), Kristu Jyoti Publications, 2012, pp. xvii + 378.

Co-Authored

• Vallabaraj Jerome – Antony Christy Lourdunathan, Cultivating a Faith Than Transforms – A Hand book of Fundamental Catechetics, Delhi, ISPCK, 2023, pp. xxx + 396.
• Vallabaraj J. – Korath S., Empowering through Animation. A Pastoral-Pedagogical Paradigm of Youth Ministry, Bangalore (India), Kristu Jyoti Publications, 2010, pp. 395.

Contributions in Scientific Journals / Books

• Vallabaraj, Jerome. “Towards a Generative Catechesis: A Re-reading of the Catechetical Directories Since Vatican II From Faith Perspective” (151-175) in Ecclesia Semper Reformanda: Church Renewal and Reform Since Vatican II. Ed. Stanley Jayakumar Yesudass. Bangalore: Theological Publications in India, 2025.
• Spiritual Mentoring of the Young from a Christian Perspective, in Kuttianimattathil (ed.), Basics in Spiritual Direction, Bangalore, Kristu Jyoti Publications, 2014, 84-108.
• Evangelizzare in un mondo piatto, in Graulich Markus – Pudumai Doss Jesu, Vino nuovo in oltri vecchi – sfide pastorali e giuridiche della nuova evangelizzazione, Vaticano, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, 109-130.
• Dialogue: Integral Communicative Enterprise in ‘Evangelizing-Catechesis, in “Salesianum” 82 (2020) 4, 779-807. (Together with Antony Christy Lourdunathan).